Jesse Karlsberg
Senior Digital Scholarship Strategist
Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJesse Karlsberg is a Senior Digital Scholarship Strategist with nine years leading interdisciplinary teams to build digital publishing platforms and research collections that make American music, southern cultures, and publishing history accessible to scholars and the public. At Emory he has secured over $1M in competitive funding, directed a 50+ person multi-institutional project, and product-managed Readux — software for browsing, annotating, and publishing digitized books. He pairs scholarly training (PhD in American Studies) and teaching in Emory’s Music Department with hands-on web development experience dating back to Harvard, driving measurable audience growth and editorial efficiency for journals like Atlanta Studies and Southern Spaces. A vice president of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company and a practicing digital humanist, he blends archival curation, pedagogy, and software design to turn historical materials into interactive, public-facing scholarship.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Commonwealth SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA, Music and Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Music and Philosophy at Wesleyan UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, American Studies (Institute for the Liberal Arts), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, American Studies (Institute for the Liberal Arts) at Emory UniversityMaster of Fine Arts - MFA, Integrated Electronic Arts, Master of Fine Arts - MFA, Integrated Electronic Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteStudy Abroad, Music and Philosophy, Study Abroad, Music and Philosophy at King's College London
Github Skills (26)
harp9
language-translation9
single-page8
smooth-scrolling8
smooth7
hugo7
hugo-theme7
styles6
postcss6
scrolling6
forestry6
static-site5
web-application4
site-generator4
php4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sacred-harp-minutes/sacred-harp-minutes-preservation
Apr 2019 - Jul 2019
Preservation repository for Sacred Harp Minutes annuals 1945–1994
Contributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 months
harpsacredminutes
jpkarlsberg/sacredharptunes
Oct 2018 - Jul 2023
A PHP site for organizing and sharing tunes written in the styles of The Sacred Harp
Contributions:4 PRs, 67 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 9 months
tunesphpsharingsacredstyles
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